Category Technology & Innovation

Duolingo’s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this beloved green bird on…

In April, on an overcast spring afternoon, I attended the seventh iteration of NFT.NYC, a haven for all believers in monkey JPEGs with a price tag and other NFTs. As rain pelted the Javits Center, the “Super Bowl of NFTs”…

The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a flurry of flares, ranging from flickers to brilliant eruptions, according to a team that analyzed data from recent observations by the Webb Space Telescope. The observations detailed the…

The gym isn’t the easiest thing for a person to go to and not just because they simply don’t want to go through the effort of signing up. Some people don’t want to exercise in front of others or they…

Spread across NASA’s headquarters and 10 field centers, which dot the United States from sea to sea, the space agency has had a workforce of nearly 18,000 civil servants. However, by the end of today, that number will have shrunk…

Argentina’s president Javier Milei has come under fire for the abrupt collapse of a cryptocurrency he promoted, in a move that has triggered lawsuits and calls for his impeachment. Milei is facing more than 100 complaints against him at the…

Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing…

Alyssa Sheil has what some would consider a dream job: she shops online for a living. Every day, an Amazon delivery truck pulls up to her home to drop off jewelry, handbags, desk chairs, fake plants, and transparent birdhouses that…

Grief was a key theme in Severance season one, but it was mostly confined to the outtie storyline. In season two, we’ve seen loss become a prominent presence in both segments of the show, provoking even the innies—who are not…

How much do you actually know about your kidneys? We all have them — or at least one and need the kidney to survive. These vital organs serve as your body’s way of getting rid of waste and controlling many…